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Facebook’s New Groups Product

Facebook’s New Groups Product

Greetings readers.  This is just a quick update on what the Facebook’s new groups product means for readers and followers of The Photo Playground.  Fortunately the new groups product has made significant improvements over their previous groups product.  Although it does seem that Facebook is always in the middle of some sort of controversy...
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Reminder: Our New Domain, Flikr Group, and Facebook Group

Reminder: Our New Domain, Flikr Group, and Facebook Group

Just a friendly reminder that our domain has changed from seanstimac.com to thephotoplayground.com.  The domiain seanstimac.com will still forward you over to the new domain, but soon seanstimac.com will become the home of another project I plan on getting started.  For those of you who have linked to this site please change the link...
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The Photo Playground Has Moved

This was a move that I promised quite awhile ago.  I’ve been so short on time lately that I just couldn’t dedicate an unknown amount of time to it.  Well, I had absolutely nothing to do today so I finally moved The Photo Playground to http://thephotoplayground.com.  I think that I updated the database and...
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The Photo Playground Flikr Pool

The Photo Playground Flikr Pool

Greetings readers. Recently we’ve been thinking that we should open the blog a bit more to you, our readers.  There are so many people doing incredible things with photography that we would like to present some of them here on The Photo Playground.  Using our new flikr pool, readers can now add photos of...
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Online Shop

Online Shop

Greetings readers.  I’ve been ultra busy lately and just haven’t had a ton of time to maintain my web life.  I did have a few hours to spare a few weeks ago though.  So, I set up a 1000 markets store.  I only five prints for sale right now and they are reasonably priced. ...
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Internet Explorer 6.0

Greetings readers.  According to our statistics 19% of you are currently using Internet Explorer 6.0.  This was very surprising and a little troubling.  In 2001 when IE6 was released it really wasn’t a bad browser, but 8 years later and that is just no longer the case.  IE6 is obsolete and there are much...
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The Photo Playground is Expanding its Horizons

Since I began this site two and half months ago I have been astonished by the number of readers and visitors who have found it and continue to come back for more (nearly 15,000 hits since March 2!). To all of my regulars thank you very very much. I’m glad that I’m able to...
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The Photo Playground is Getting a Makeover (updated)

Greetings gentle readers. Over the next few days I will be making some changes to this blog. The current theme that I am using has become too limited in its range of functions so I’m forcing myself to scrap it and install another one. I rewrote some of the CSS and php for this...
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sean stimac’s great pinhole hack…

sean stimac’s great pinhole hack…

Some very exciting news, my DIY 35mm pinhole tutorial has been reposted at Four Corners Dark you can view the post here.  If you’re unfamiliar with Four Corners Dark you should go check them out.  They are without a doubt the best toy camera blog ever.  Their new online store, the Four Corners Store...
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Neretta Snap featured at FUZZYEYEBALLS

Two days and four posts into my new blog and I’ve been featured at one my favorite blogs.  Andrew at FUZZYEYEBALLS posted a brief description and some kind words about my homemade 4×5 point and shoot the Neretta Snap a few hours ago.  So thanks to Andrew for the encouragement. Andrew is a toy...
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